By Robin Itzler When we look back at pivotal historic alignments, we tend to squish everything into a short period of time although it often took decades to go from idea to actuality. For example, the suffragette movement focuses on 1919 as the year women won the right to vote. But the movement […]

. . by Ellen Brown A central bank-financed UBI can fill the debt gap, providing a vital safety net while preventing cyclical recessions. According to an April 6 article on CNBC.com, Spain is slated to become the first country in Europe to introduce a universal basic income (UBI) on a long-term basis. Spain’s Minister for Economic […]

by Ellen Brown In what is being called the worst financial crisis since 1929, the US stock market has lost a third of its value in the space of a month, wiping out all of its gains of the last three years. When the Federal Reserve tried to ride to the rescue, it only succeeded in […]

By L. Neil Smith When I was just a little boy of nine, between Fourth and Fifth grades, my military family briefly visited New York City on our way to Pepperrell Air Force Base in St. John’s, Newfoundland. I was not impressed. Everything about the place was dirty, gritty, over-hyped, and the hotel we […]

By L. Neil Smith Originally presented Friday, April 26, 1996, at the Colorado Libertarian Party Annual Convention — First published in _TLE_ Issue Number 8, May, 1996] “It is moral weakness, rather than villainy, that accounts for most of the evil in the universe—and feeble-hearted allies, far rather than your most powerful enemies, who […]

Wayne Allyn Root As I write this column, just days before New Year 2020, we are all being bombarded by great news about the US economy under President Trump. It just doesn’t get any better than this. NASDAQ just hit 11,000 for the first time in history. It’s up a remarkable 11 days in […]

By Sigrid Weidenweber If it were not for all the Democrat candidates maligning capitalism and proposing ridiculous monetary social schemes for the population, it would never have occurred to me to write, or even think, about capitalism. We all think that we know what the word means. It is the freedom and the […]

By L. Neil Smith, The Libertarian Enterprise This will probably be the strangest item that I have ever written for _L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise_. There is almost too much out there to write about these days. Our culture has reached a kind of crescendo of the “Crazy Years” that Robert Heinlein predicted […]

Michael S. Rozeff, LewRockwell A previous blog suggested and made some arguments that congressional policies pushed by Democrats and democratic socialists are achieving the destruction of the family. Statistics on family breakdown, drug use, divorce, single-parent families, out-of-wedlock births, struggling and poor single-parent families, higher crime and delinquency from progeny of fatherless families, and […]

By ELLIE GARDEY CONTRIBUTOR The average age of a Democratic Socialists of America member was 68 in 2013. But today, that average age has sunk to 33, representing a movement of young people towards socialism. New data from the College Pulse on 10,590 full-time and part-time college students demonstrates this movement, showing 39% of students […]

CHALLENGE THE WIND is a powerful American revolutionary War tale that dispenses a deep look at the impact of war on a family and those who come into their circle. The novel captures the souls of the audience through its powerful characterizations. However, the key to this strong historical story is the underlying theme that no matter how noble the cause war is hell on not just the combatants, but the loved ones waiting behind for news that those they cherish still live.